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When Joyce Mack arrived in Las Vegas in 1947, the city was a small frontier town with a population under 25,000. “My mother was a visionary. She looked at the desert and saw a city on a hill. She knew that it was going to be something special,” her daughter, Karen Mack Goldsmith, told the Las Vegas Vegas Review-Journal on Wednesday evening.

Joyce Mack arrived in Las Vegas in 1947 after meeting her future husband, Jerry, at UCLA. She was 22 years old, the city had fewer than 25,000 people and the Strip’s first resort had opened only a few years earlier.

The future of 51�ԹϺ���’s 42-acre lot near the Strip is still uncertain after the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents special meeting Tuesday. “This land is not just a parcel of real estate,” University President Keith Whitfield said during a presentation of four proposals for the land. “It’s a transformative opportunity to shape the future of 51�ԹϺ��� and its future within the border of Las Vegas.

51�ԹϺ��� is aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2057, officials announced today. 51�ԹϺ��� is the first Nevada System of Higher Education institution to launch a climate action plan, 51�ԹϺ��� President Keith Whitfield said in a recorded message. Called Rebel CAP, the plan will act as a roadmap for sustainability around campus

51�ԹϺ��� says it’s time to sell Sam Boyd Stadium, as it has become a burden to upkeep, with the closed facility targeted by copper wire thieves and the homeless. Speaking Friday to the Nevada Board of Regents, 51�ԹϺ��� President Keith Whitfield said maintaining and securing the stadium has become a problem since the Rebel football team stopped playing there in 2019 after their move to Allegiant Stadium in 2020.

After five long years of mainly sitting empty, there are some big steps forward in what’s next for Sam Boyd Stadium. On Friday, Sept. 6, the 51�ԹϺ��� Board of Regents and Clark County discussed transferring the property back to the county.

51�ԹϺ��� President Keith Whitfield has watched enrollment at the university soar to new heights, growing from 30,660 students in fall 2022 to an expected 32,000 students for the fall 2024 semester that started last month. Whitfield has also seen the university at its lowest, when a shooter walked onto the campus on Dec. 6, 2023, killed three professors and wounded another.

A light breeze flows through 51�ԹϺ���’s Frank and Estella Beam Hall early Monday morning as students mill about, some waiting anxiously outside classroom doors while others type away at laptops on the nearby benches or tables.